Verisheh Moradi

Verisheh Moradi (also transliterated as Wirishe Moradi or Warisha Moradi; , ) is a Kurdish political prisoner and women's rights activist sentenced to death by the state of Iran. She was arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj on 1 August 2023 and imprisoned in Evin Prison in Tehran. In February 2024, Moradi was formally charged with baghi armed rebellion against the state, due to her association with Kurdish opposition groups. In November 2024, Branch Fifteen of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran sentenced Moradi to death.

Before arrest In 2014, Moradi was injured in an armed conflict between IS armed groups and Kurdish armed groups in the Kurdish-majority town of Kobani, located in Syria.

Arrest and detainment Moradi was arrested on 1 August 2023 while traveling by car into Sanandaj In an open letter written by Moradi in August 2024, she described agents of the Ministry of Intelligence shooting at the vehicle she was in, then physically assaulting her. for five months. On 26 December 2023, she was transferred out of solitary confinement and into the women's ward of the same prison. Her death sentence was however overturned in December 2025. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-overturns-death-sentence-kurdish-leftist-leader-verisheh-moradi?

Responses to arrest and death sentence Several international activist groups and individuals have come out in support of Moradi. The human rights organization Amnesty International began a campaign to free Moradi by publishing an open letter to Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, Chief Justice of Iran.